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what are the three different parts of cities

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metropolitan area, central city, urban areas

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what are smaller urban areas called

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micropolitan

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an urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into independent, self-governing unit known as a municipality

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Central City

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where is population declining and increasing in the US

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declining- East and North
increasing- west and south

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consists of a central city and its surrounding built-up suburbs

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Urban areas

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a collection of adjacent or overlapping metropolitan areas that merge into a continuous urban region

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Megalopolis

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the best-known and most visually distinctive area of most cities

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Central Business District (CBD)

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what are two activities not in the CBD

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manufacturing and residentail

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areas in a developed country where health food is difficult to obtain

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Food Deserts

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three types of urban structure models

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concentric zone, sector, multiple nuclei

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what is a different version of the multiple nuclei model

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galactic (peripheral)

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a city grows outward from a central area in a series of concentric rings, like the growth rings of a tree.

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Concentric Zone Model

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who made the concentric zone model

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Ernest Burge

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numbered zone of the zone model

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1- CBD
2-Zone of transition
3- working-class homes
4-Better residence
5- commuter zone

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Most expensive housing is built in a corridor extending from downtown to the outer edge of the city. Certain parts of the city attract different activities.Expand outward like wedge from the center

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Sector Model-

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who made the sector model

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Homer Hoyt

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a city is a complex structure that includes a CBD as well as other centers around which activities occur. Some activities are attracted to nodes while others stay away

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Multiple Nuclei Model

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who made the multiple nuclei model

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harries and Ullman

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an urban area consists of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and service nodes or nuclei tied together by a beltway or ring road.

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Galactic (Peripheral) Model-

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the nodes of consumer and business services around the beltway

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Edge Cities

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the study of where people of varying living standards, ethnic backgrounds, and lifestyles live within an urban area

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Social Area Analysis

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each contains approximately 5,000 residents and correspond, where possible, to neighborhood boundaries

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Census Tracts

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structure in European CIties

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more people live downtown
less skyscrappers
newer houses are on the outside and newer inside
most immigrants in the suburbs

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which part of the concentric zones gains the most money

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the inner rings

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Informal Settlements

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a residential area where housing has been built on land to which the occupants have no legal claim or has not been built to the city’s standards for legal buildings

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what is a favela

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a community/ city built with no government oversight by workers or old freed slaves; prevalent in Brazil

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a residential or commercial area situated within an urban area but outside the central city

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Suburb

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he process of legally adding land area to a city or county

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Annexation

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density gadient

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US tends to become less and less dense as on ventures farther from the city’s center

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the development of suburbs at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing build-up-area

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Sprawl

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how does sprawl happen

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evelopers buy up land on the periphery, typically farms, ad hold them until it makes economic sense to develop these tracts

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which country has their land look lie swiss cheese (UK or US)

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US

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which country has tightly regulated development with open spaces (greenbelts)

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UK

34
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legislation and regulations to limit suburban growth and preserve farmland

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Smart Growth

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what does the build-up o business in the suburbs lead to

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edge cities

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the number of houses per unit of land diminishes as distance from the center city increases

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Density Gradient-

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how is modern residential suburb segregated (2)

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social class, land use

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three types of public transportation

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heavy rail, light rail, bus

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example of heavy rail

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subways and elevated trains

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examples of light rail

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trams and streetcars

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a group prevented from participating in the material benefits of a more developed society because of a variety of social and economic challenges.

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Underclass

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the process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income, renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class, owner-occupied area

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Gentrification

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what is filtering

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larger houses in older neighborhoods subdivided into smaller dwellings for low-income families

44
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government-owned housing rented to low-income people, with rents set at 30 percent of the tenant’s income.

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Public Housing-

45
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five ways the road congestions are going down

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GPS
congestion charges
tolls
permits
bans

46
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unique places in urban areas

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CBD, residential areas w/ cultural characteristics

47
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cities and scale

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local; cities are centers of divercity
global; economic well-being and vibrancy depends on global economic patterns

48
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distribution in cities

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density declines with increasing distance from the city
clustered groups
rich vs. poor distance

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